Frozen yogurt shop using yogurt from Hawkeye

9:39 PM,
Aug. 10, 2013

Yotopia Owner Veronica Tessler visits Country View Dairy in Hawkeye.

Written by

Alesha L. Crews
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

Since Yotopia Frozen Yogurt opened in downtown Iowa City in 2011, owner Veronica Tessler's goal has been to make her business as sustainable as possible.

This month, the self-serve frozen yogurt shop got much closer to that goal.

Tessler, 28, has entered into a partnership with Country View Dairy, an independent, family-run dairy farm in Hawkeye. The milk from the farm's herd - 150 Holsteins - is used to make all-natural, non-homogenized yogurt sold in grocery stores across the state. Yotopia previously sourced its yogurt from a national supplier. ...